For much of the valuable information which the following History of Portuguese Literature contains, the author acknowledges himself to be indebted to the communications of a learned Portuguese, with whom he became acquainted after the materials he had previously collected were arranged for publication. M. Bouterwek originally intended to comprise what he had to say, on Portuguese literature, in a brief sketch, which was to form a supplement to the preceding volume; but the assistance of his literary friend enabled him to make the present volume a suitable companion to his history of the sister literature of the Peninsula. In England commercial interests may have induced many persons to make themselves acquainted with the language of Portugal, but the literature of that country has hitherto been studied by few. With the exception of Camoens, even the names of the principal Portuguese authors are scarcely known to us. The greater novelty of the subject is therefore an advantage which this second volume possesses over the first.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

[BOOK I.]
FROM THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Page
[Rise of Portuguese poetry]1
[Gonzalo Hermiguez and Egaz Moniz, poets of the twelfth century]5
[Early essay in epic poetry]8
[King Diniz of Portugal, a poet of the thirteenth century]9
[Poets of the royal family in the fourteenth century]10
[Oldest specimens of Portuguese prose]14
[Intimate connection of the Portuguese and Galician poetry.—The Galician poet Macias]15
[The Cancioneiros Geraes]17
[Deficiency with regard to historical romances—little influence of the cultivation of Latin verse on Portuguese lyric poetry]20
[Early cultivation of historical prose in Portuguese literature]21
[Increase of Portuguese power, followed by the rapid developement of the national poetry, at the commencement of the sixteenth century]23
[Bernardim Ribeyro]24
[His eclogues]25
[His cantigas]30
[His romance of Menina e Moça]33
[Christovaõ Falcaõ]39
[Other ancient lyric poems]44
[BOOK II.]
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
[CHAP. I.]
GENERAL VIEW OF THE POETIC AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION
OF THE PORTUGUESE DURING THE ABOVE PERIOD.
[Relation of Portuguese to Spanish poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries]47
[Causes of the continued cultivation of the Spanish language in Portugal]51
[Religious and political character of the Portuguese during this period]54
[CHAP. II.]
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE FROM THE
EPOCH OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ITALIAN STYLE, TILL
TOWARDS THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
[Tranquil adoption of the Italian style]59
[Saa de Miranda]61
[General character of his poems]63
[His eclogues]66
[His epistles]71
[His spiritual poems]74
[His popular songs, &c.]76
[His two prose comedies]78
[Gil Vicente]85
[General character of his dramatic prose]87
[His autos, or spiritual dramas]90
[His comedies, in a peculiar signification of the term]99
[His tragi-comedies]101
[His farces]103
[Ferreira]111
[General character of his poetry]114
[His correct style of sonnet composition]117
[His odes]119
[His elegies]122
[His eclogues]125
[His epistles]ibid
[His epigrams, &c.]130
[His tragedy and his two prose comedies]132
[Camoens]139
[General character of his poetry]148
[Character and analysis of the Lusiad]150
[The other poetic works of Camoens]184
[His sonnets]187
[His canções]189
[His odes]190
[His elegies]192
[His estancias]195
[His eclogues]196
[His poems in redondilhas, &c.]197
[His dramas]200
[Classical school of Saa de Miranda and Antonio Ferreira]208
[Andrade Caminha]209
[Bernardes]217
[Cortereal]223
[Other Portuguese poets of the sixteenth century—Ferreira de Vasconcellos—Rodriguez de Castro—Lobo de Soropita, &c.]225
[Rodriguez Lobo]226
[His Court in the Country]228
[His pastoral romances]235
[His miscellaneous poems]245
[Imitation of the Spanish romances in Portugal]250
[State of Portuguese eloquence in the sixteenth century]252
[Romances and novels]253
[Sà Sotomayor]254
[Pires de Rebello]256
[Progress of the historical art]258
[Joaõ de Barros]260
[Lopez de Castanheda—Damiaõ de Góes—Affonso d’Alboquerque]266
[Bernardo de Brito]268
[CHAP. III.]
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.
[Decay of the ancient national energy in Portuguese literature]273
[Portuguese sonnets of the seventeenth century]276
[Faria e Sousa]277
[His sonnets]279
[His treatises on poetry]283
[His eclogues and his theory respecting that species of composition]286
[His commentary on the works of Camoens]288
[Thomas de Noronha—comic sonnet poetry]290
[Barbosa Bacellar]292
[Torrezaõ Coelho]295
[Freire de Andrada, an opponent of the Gongorists and Marinists]296
[Further decline of Portuguese taste—Ribeiro de Macedo—Correa de la Cerda]302
[Violante do Ceo]304
[Didactic epistles of Alvares da Cunha]307
[Jeronymo Bahia]308
[Francisco Vasconcellos]311
[Telles da Sylva and Nunez da Sylva]312
[Other sonneteers—continued intervention of the Spanish language in Portuguese poetry]315
[Portuguese eloquence during the seventeenth century]317
[Romantic prose—Matheus Ribeyro—Castanheira Turacem]318
[Historical prose—Freire Andrada’s biography of Joaõ de Castro]322
[Portuguese treatises on poetry and rhetoric written during the seventeenth century]327
[BOOK III.]
FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
[Preliminary observations]328
[CHAP. I.]
GENERAL HISTORY OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION IN PORTUGAL DURING THIS PERIOD.
[Total decay of Portuguese literature towards the end of the seventeenth century]329
[Establishment of the Portuguese academy in 1714]331
[Administration of the Marquis of Pombal]333
[Revived spirit of literature—utility of the Portuguese academy of sciences]334
[CHAP. II.]
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY DURING THIS PERIOD.
[The Conde da Ericeyra]336
[General character of his works]338
[His Henriqueida]340
[Continuance of corrupt taste in Portuguese poetry—Barros Pereira—Antonio de Lima]347
[The Portuguese drama in the first half of the eighteenth century]350
[Spurious dramas called operas]ibid
RESUMPTION OF AN IMPROVED STYLE IN PORTUGUESE POETRY.
[Manoel da Costa]357
[His successful imitation of Cantatas in the style of Metastasio]362
[Progress of Portuguese poetry in the latter part of the eighteenth century]364
[Translations of latin classics into the Portuguese language]365
[Titles of some of the poems produced in this period]366
[Garçaõ—his imitation of Horace’s odes]367
[His dramas in the style of Terence]372
[The Abbot Paulino]375
[Dona Catharina de Sousa—Her tragedy of Osmia]377
[Failure of Osmia on the stage—prevalence of dramatic imitations and translations]383
[Recent Portuguese poets—in particular Tolentino da Almeida]384
[Araujo de Azavedo—his translations of English poems]386
[CHAP. III.]
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE ELOQUENCE, CRITICISM AND RHETORIC, DURING THIS PERIOD.
[Further decline of Portuguese eloquence]387
[New cultivation of eloquence—Classical prose authors still wanting in modern Portuguese literature]390
[Romantic prose—translations]391
[Portuguese criticism of the eighteenth century]ibid
[Ericeyra’s introduction to his Henriqueida]392
[Garçaõ’s lectures]395
[Philological and critical treatises of the Academicians—Joaquim de Foyos—Francisco Dias—Antonio das Naves, &c.]398
[Compendium of rhetoric by Antonio Teixeira de Magalhaens]402
[CONCLUSION.]
[Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish literature]403

HISTORY
OF
PORTUGUESE LITERATURE.